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Originally Posted by Suzu

You do know we are talking about characterization here? Mai expresses herself by dancing and this is how she gets over her problems. Even if everyone else stops it, she won't. Because it's the most important thing in her life.

And part of characterization is character development. And Mai needs to develop out of the dead-end street dancing plot. Hopefully this will be the episode where she realizes that it doesn't matter how big of a show she puts on in the barn, beat riding is dead. I don't dislike the character, but she needs to start realizing that this isn't the first ten episodes anymore and there isn't going to be any more stage battles and public dance shows. Because so far all of her scenes in the last few episodes have been about trying to return the show to the same plot it had at the beginning and last week's episode was stronger for not having a "guys we need to save beat riding!" digression.